giving this a try...

[vaznetti]

I've seen this here there and everywhere, and thought I might try it, too:

What kind of topics/entries would you like to see me posting about? Any particular questions you've always wanted to ask me but have resisted because the answer would be a huge essay? Ever want to wind me up and watch me go on a particular topic? Anything you've heard me say, "I should write that entry about XYZ I've been meaning to write" and have been patiently waiting for?

I am going to do the three weeks of DW thing and not post this to LJ, but as I do it I am hesitating, because it seems a little unfair: there are a lot of people on my FL on livejournal who don't want to move over here. And I don't want to cut them out; I don't have much attachment to LJ qua LJ (it's a service, I use it, great), but I do have a lot of attachment to people there.

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[rhi]

Actually, I've always wanted to ask you what influence, if any, you think the Greek and/or Roman cultures had on Methos. He went from Death on a horse to just a guy, after all. (And if that's way longer than you have time/interest for, skip it at will.)

[vaznetti]

No, this is a really cool question -- because actually, I've always thought that Methos was never all that comfortable in Rome. At least, fo much of the time. My personal fanon places him in Italy in the 8th century BCE, and again around the 6th/5th, but mostly spending time in Etruscan and Greek cities. (He really liked the Etruscans. What's not to like, really?) And in the greek world I always associate him with Ionia (hence the move to Southern Italy and Sicily at the end of the 6th century, because I don't really see Methos sticking around to fight the Persians.)

And then, he's such an epicurean -- ataraxia is totally his ideal state. I think this is appealing to him because it's a way of restraining the violence inside himself -- as you say, he used to be Death, and I think that not-being-Death is, at least at certain times, something of a struggle for Methos. I should totally write a "why Methos is an Epicurean (and does that mean Duncan is a Stoic?)" post.

Duncan, OTOH, would have totally loved Rome. He'd have been all, virtus! and fides! and pietas! These are my people!

[rhi]

::giggling:: You made me laugh myself into a coughing jag with that last paragraph.... I hope you write that post!!!